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Article title says it all, sport in Vatican City. Comments are greatly appreciated and trying to work my way up for this to become an FAC! Arconning (talk) 17:21, 29 July 2024 (UTC)\
RoySmith
editI saw this (and had some problems with the sourcing) at Template:Did you know nominations/Sport in Vatican City.
- I guess my first recommendation is to be fanatical about finding high-quality sources (because your reviewers at FAC will be). Some of the sources you use are not WP:INDEPENDENT; Holy See Press Office, Vatican News, Aleteia. That doesn't make them impossible to use, but the more you can avoid them, the better off you'll be.
- Double-check that the licensing on all your images is OK. For example, I looked at File:Vatican World Taekwondo Demonstration Team.png. It says "Unknown author"; that might not go over well. More importantly, it's a video which was hosted on YouTube, but is no longer available. There's an archive.org link, but when I try to view it, I just get the same "This video isn't available anymore" screen, so it's basically unverifiable.
- @RoySmith: Sorry for the late reply, quite busy. I believe I'm done with your suggestions, do you have any more? Arconning (talk) 13:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I took at closer look at the statements cited to Townend 1958. You say
The first sporting facility built in what is now Vatican City was the first-century chariot-racing track of the Circus of Nero
I don't see where the source says this, nor where it says "The circus itself was constructed on Vatican hill". I'm also unsure how this source should be interpreted vis-a-vis WP:HQRS. It appears to be a book review, and much of it is expressing opinions about how the reviewed book (The Shrine of St. Peter) is incorrect in places where it, in turn, points out errors in a "official Vatican report". This seems like a bit of a long chain. - I'm not sure if Vanysacker 2015 ranks as a WP:HQRS. It's a Catholic theologian writing about the Catholic Church, in a journal which is (according to The Catholic Historical Review) "the official organ of the American Catholic Historical Association". I can't find anything in WP:RSN about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if reviewers at WP:FAC questioned its independence, especially when it's used to back up subjective statements like "The Vatican held positive opinions towards sports as a way of expressing Catholic spirituality and principles".
Vatican plans to form National Olympic Committee and march at Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony
That's history now, so this should be rephrased accordingly.The Vatican supplied two athletes to symbolically compete
avoid the split infinitive.- I'm dubious about https://www.insidethegames.biz/ ranking as a RS.
children who have autism and Down syndrome
it seems odd that you capitalize Down syndrome but not autism. I would think either both or neither, but if you've got something which back that up as accepted style for each, that's fine.
